Petition

A. P. Cooper et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG24-70
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2052
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FTP Identifier
32210460

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Dates
1861
1862-07-22
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Citation

A. P. Cooper et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-2052 (November 12, 2026).

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His Excellency B Magoffin
Gov. of Kentucky

Sir Your petitioners John M Phipps and Eliza Hampton was arrested in the fall of 1861 and brought before B Hamons J P. for trial under a charge of fornication and the trial terminated in a fine of Ten Dollars against each of your petitioners and an Executions issued agt. each of us for said fines And is now in the hands of the Sheriff of Magoffin County Ky. & Who will proceed to collect the Same unless restrained by your Honor and ^We^ humbly ask your honor to interpose & remit the Said fines & We further Say We will not be fined for Such offences any More

The undersigned Join in the prayer with the above petitioners for the remission of their fines Owing to the fact that they are poor & Needy and has Solemnly avowed to Join together in the holy State of Matrimony

A. P Cooper Esqr
Samuel Salyer
B F Howard
Miles Williams
H P Williams
J C. Stamper
Jacob Wireman
Daniel Reid

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Remitted
B M

Magoffin J P Ct
$10 each } Fornication
Jno. M Phipps
Eliza Hampton
IssdJuly 22 1862

J. M. Phipps &c,
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